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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2002 04:24:07 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c 
Message-ID:  <20021025041846.B1170-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <1103.1035479390@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <200210241603.MAA18418@leviathan.cnchost.com>, Bakul Shah writes:
>
> >Here is a *non* PC98 machine report.  My 4 year old Toshiba
> >Ultium (a Ppro machine with onboard aic 7880 scsi controller)
> >does not boot.  It can't find the root device and drops into
> >the rootmount menu.  Until now I haven't had any time to even
> >hook up a serial port -- hope to send a more detailed report
> >today.
>
> Make sure you don't have one of the bogus "ad0a" style devices
> listed for your root filesystem.

Yes, standard slice names are now decreed bogus.  You have to use
i386-centric names like ad0s4a, at least on i386's with disks that
actually have slices.

Bruce


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